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Tattooed man from the front, Australia, 25 December 1937

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Bob D said:
    swallow tattoos each represent 5000 nautical miles travelled at sea.
  • Merryjack said:
    "Another legend holds that since swallows return to the same location every year to mate and nest, the swallow will guarantee the sailor returns home safely. A sailor would have one swallow tattooed before setting out on a journey, and the second swallow tattooed at the end of their tour of duty, upon return to their home port." "It is also said that if the sailor drowns, the swallows will carry his soul to heaven." More at - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow_tattoo

John Hennington, tattooed man, Australia, 25 December 1937

from State Library of New South Wales

A Collection of Drawings made in the Countries visited by Captain Cook in his First Voyage - caption: 'Portrait of a New Zealand man'

from British Library

  • Royal Museums Greenwich said:
    Hello! We'd love you to add this photo to the National Maritime Museum's group Travellers' Tails. www.flickr.com/groups/nmm_travellers/rules/ This group has been set up to collate photographic responses to the exhibition The Art and Science of Exploration: 1768-80 at the National Maritime Museum and touring to the Grant Museum of Zoology, the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, the Hunterian Museum and Horniman Museum and Gardens. The exhibition aims to explore Captain Cook’s voyages of discovery, as well as the exchange of ideas and experiences around travel and exploration and investigate key questions around the history of art, science and exploration and what this means today, drawing on George Stubbs’ Enlightenment era paintings of a kangaroo and dingo, recently acquired by the National Maritime Museum. We’d love to see your photographs - please help us build a gallery of images to enrich the group! Thanks! www.flickr.com/groups/nmm_travellers/rules/